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WISE - Global Soil Profile Data, version 3.1

Version 3.1 of the ISRIC-WISE database (WISE3) was compiled from a wide range of soil profile data collected by many soil professionals worldwide. All profiles have been harmonized with respect to the original Legend (1974) and Revised Legend (1988) of FAO-Unesco. Thereby, the primary soil data ─ and any secondary data derived from them ─ can be linked using GIS to the spatial units of the digitized Soil Map of the World as well as more recent digital Soil and Terrain (SOTER) databases through the soil legend code.

WISE3 holds selected attribute data for some 10,250 soil profiles, with some 47,800 horizons, from 149 countries. Individual profiles have been sampled, described, and analyzed according to methods and standards in use in the originating countries. There is no uniform set of properties for which all profiles have analytical data, generally because only selected measurements were planned during the original surveys. Methods used for laboratory determinations of specific soil properties vary between laboratories and over time; sometimes, results for the same property cannot be compared directly. WISE3 will inevitably include gaps, being a compilation of legacy soil data derived from traditional soil survey, which can be of a taxonomic, geographic, and soil analytical nature. As a result, the amount of data available for modelling is sometimes much less than expected. Adroit use of the data, however, will permit a wide range of agricultural and environmental applications at a global and continental scale (1:500 000 and broader).

Preferred citation:

Batjes NH 2009. Harmonized soil profile data for applications at global and continental scales: updates to the WISE database. Soil Use and Management 5:124–127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00202.x

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Date (Publication)
2008-12-01
Identifier
a351682c-330a-4995-a5a1-57ad160e621c
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Publisher
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Niels Batjes ( Senior Soil Scientist )
PO Box 353 , Wageningen , 6700AJ , Netherlands
Point of contact
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Data info desk ( custodian )
Custodian
  ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils) - Data info desk ( publisher )
Theme
  • calcium
  • carbon
  • cation exchange capacity
  • electrical conductivity
  • nitrogen
  • organic carbon
  • bulk density
  • soil classification
  • soil depth
  • soil profiles
  • pH
  • salinity
  • texture
  • water holding capacity
  • soil profiles
  • nutrients
Stratum
  • Soil science
Region
  • Global
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Attribution 3.0 International (CC BY 3.0)
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Vector
Denominator
100000
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1925-01-01
End date
2010-04-15
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EPSG / 4326
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  • Niels Batjes ( )

Publisher
  ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils) - Data info desk
OnLine resource
Download ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download )
OnLine resource
Project webpage ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
OnLine resource
Report ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
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Dataset
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Journal paper:

1)Batjes NH 2009. Harmonized soil profile data for applications at global and continental scales: updates to the WISE database. Soil Use and Management 5:124–127,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00202.x

Supporting documentation:

2) Batjes NH 2008. ISRIC-WISE Harmonized Global Soil Profile Dataset (Ver. 3.1). Report 2008/02, ISRIC – World Soil Information, Wageningen, 59p with dataset, https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2008_02.pdf

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English
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Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-02-05T10:33:43
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
2003/Cor.1:2006
Point of contact
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Data infodesk
 
 

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bulk density calcium carbon cation exchange capacity electrical conductivity nitrogen nutrients organic carbon pH salinity soil classification soil depth soil profiles soil profiles texture water holding capacity

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